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 EBVOLT OF YIN. 55 ^ i ordering him to send a body of a thousand horse in advance to scont^ and to discover the position of the enemy. This he failed to do ; and as he entered the guUy of Kiw wei goo, — " Ox-tail f Valley/' — ^he was suddenly attacked, and completely defeated, ' with half his men slain. Hereupon Yin felt secure in his new dominions, and therefore styled himself Prefect of Pingchow and Duke of Liaotung. He also seized and retained Wang Chi and other officials, whom the Tsin Emperor had sent across the sea, to take command of and in Liaotung, and who were then on their way to Whang to pay their respects, and to deliver to him an order from the Tsin Emperor to march upon Liaotimg, along with the Chinese officials named in the imperial document, which they were to deliver. Whang did not receive the message ; but he was not dilatoiy in making formidable preparations on his own account For though he was the vassal of the Emperor, the fealty due was a merely nominal one ; and Liaotung was of much more conse- quence to him than to the Chinese Emperor. The Commandant of Hiangping* opened its gates to the large army of Whang, and his example was again followed by all the fortified cities of Liaotung. Whang was eager for vengeance on Hiangping because of its desertion, and desired to put the entire city to the sword. His advisers, however, proved that this would be bad policy; and his anger was satisfied by having the inhabitants all moved to the west of the Liao river. This example of wholesale transportation was followed by the Manchus, thirteen hundred years later,' at that same river, and still more extensively on the Liaotung, Fukien, and Ewangtung searCoast& It would appear as if Tin had retired before Whang into his own province of Pinggwo, among the numerous mountains of the Liaotung peninsula^ and that Whang was not prepared to pursue him further ; for the armies of the two brothers did not come into collision. In 335, Tin dismissed the imperial messengers, Wang Chi and his companions, to find their way home by sea. But^ once
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